Parsons School of Design
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| founding | 1896 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | New York City , USA |
| Executive Dean | Joel Towers |
| Students | ~ 4,200 |
| Professors | 30 (~ 675 visiting professors and lecturers) |
| Website | www.newschool.edu/parsons |
The Parsons School of Design , in short Parsons is one as 1896 Chase School of Art founded design school in New York City . It has been part of The New School since 1970 ( The New School for Social Research until 2005 ). Parsons was the first college in the United States to offer courses in fashion , advertising , graphic design, and interior design . In the QS World University Rankings for Art and Design, it ranks first in the USA and third worldwide (as of 2019).
history
The founder was the impressionist painter William Merritt Chase . In 1897 he handed over management to Douglas John Connah , whose directorate lasted until 1909. In 1898 the school was renamed the New York School of Art . In 1904 Frank Alvah Parsons came to the school and in 1907 developed the first courses in interior design , graphic design and advertising in the United States. To accommodate the expanded range of schools, the school was called the New York School of Fine and Applied Art from 1909 . Parsons was the director of the school from 1911 until his death in 1930. In his honor, the future director William Odom renamed it Parsons School of Design in 1939 . When the parent institution was renamed from The New School for Social Research to The New School , it was given the name Parsons The New School for Design . Since The New School was rebranded again in 2015, it has been renamed Parsons School of Design again.
Parsons today
Parsons is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD). The main campus is located in Greenwich Village , the well-known fashion department in the core of the Garment District . The students are divided into around 3,100 undergraduate and over 400 postgraduate students . The school also offers advanced and certification courses.
Worldwide there are other Parsons partner schools in France , Los Angeles , Malaysia , South Korea , the Dominican Republic and Japan which, as independent schools, follow the philosophy and methods of Parsons. Except for the contact with the Parsons schools in the Dominican Republic and France, Parsons has currently broken off contact with the other Parsons schools.
Parsons offers 13 Bachelor and 17 Master programs.
Well-known graduates
- Sue de Beer (* 1973), American artist
- Stephen Dwoskin (1939–2012), American film artist
- Tom Ford (* 1961), American fashion designer
- Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), American painter
- Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American painter
- Marc Jacobs (* 1963), American fashion designer
- Jasper Johns (born 1930), American artist
- Donna Karan (* 1948), American fashion designer and entrepreneur
- David Koenig (* 1974), German photo artist
- Barbara Kruger (* 1945), American artist
- Ryan McGinley (born 1977), American photographer
- Steven Meisel (* 1954), American photographer and illustrator
- Isis Mussenden (* 1959), American costume designer
- Giulia Piersanti (* 1976), Italian fashion designer
- Alex Steinweiss (1917–2011), American designer and inventor of the modern record cover ("Cover Art")
- Anna Sui (* 1955), American fashion designer
- Julie Umerle , English painter
- Alexander Wang (* 1983), American fashion designer
- Ai Wei Wei (* 1957), Chinese conceptual artist
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Art & Design. February 15, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 .
- ^ Ivo Kranzfelder: Edward Hopper 1882–1967 - Vision de la réalité . Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8228-2048-2 , p. 7 .
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